HAND-HELD MEDICAL-DATA CAPTURE-DEVICE HAVING A DIGITAL INFRARED SENSOR ON A CIRCUIT BOARD THAT IS SEPARATE FROM A MICROPROCESSOR AND HAVING INTEROPERATION WITH ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEMS

摘要

In one implementation, an apparatus estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point is described, estimates temperature from a digital infrared sensor and determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer, or determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer and estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point; after which the estimated and/or determined information is transmitted to an external database.

主权项

1. A device comprising:
a first circuit board including:
a microprocessor;a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor and that is operable to transmit a representation of a temperature;a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor;a display device operably coupled to the microprocessor;a single button operably coupled to the microprocessor; anda first digital interface operably coupled to the microprocessor; a second circuit board including:
a second digital interface, the second interface being operably coupled to the first interface; anda digital infrared sensor operably coupled to the second interface, the digital infrared sensor having ports that provide only digital readout signals, wherein the microprocessor is operable to receive from the ports of the digital infrared sensor—the digital readout signals that are representative of an infrared signal generated by the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor is operable to determine the temperature from the digital readout signals that are representative of the infrared signal, and wherein no analog-to-digital converter is operably coupled between the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor.